Imperium Galactica II Announced
Date: May 14th
"Imperium Galactica II combines the combat and conquest elements of
best-selling real-time strategy titles with the resource management of
popular empire builders," said Tony Kee, Director of Marketing for GT
Interactive. "Because of this unique mix, Imperium Galactica II stands
apart and creates an all consuming gaming experience with infinite replay
value."
Imperium Galactica II is set in the 26th century where genetic scientists
have toyed with the creation of a super-human race. The ruling military
powers conspire to transform their research into a race of perfect killing
machines, but not before a rebel scientist launches indestructible memory
crystals containing all of the research information to random coordinates
of the galaxy. The job of the player is to search and be the first to collect
and protect the crystals ensuring completion of the mission, and the
conquest of the new universe.
Imperium Galactica II offers three different scenarios based on the race
players choose: Human, Brutal and Political. As a Human, players use
spying and espionage to discover one of the four crystals, and plot to
retrieve the remaining three. As a Brutal, players defend both their planet
and crystal before attempting to conquer the remaining galaxies. In the
Political campaign, players generate revenue by acting as mercenaries.
Political missions include supplying warring factions with black-market
goods, spying, selling information and creating unrest throughout the
galaxy for profit.
Some of Imperium Galactica II's highlights include Fleet design and
modification, a random storyline generator, the ability to defend cargo
ships and battle pirates, control over the entire fleet's destiny, players can
build, manage, and defend colonies on 80 different planets, diplomacy
and alliances, espionage, multiplayer support for up to 6 players, high
resolution 3D graphics, a tech tree that allows for the upgrade and
discovery of new technologies relating to weapons, buildings and vehicles
and an interface that claims to be user friendly and easy to learn.
Imperium Galactica II on PC CD-Rom is scheduled for release later this
year.
GT Interactive announced Imperium Galactica II, a sequel to Digital
Reality's popular space empire building game at E3. The game features
research, production, unit design, colony management, real-time space
and ground battles, starmap navigation, trading, diplomacy, spying and
intelligence.